Anne Waters
05 // Anne Waters was born in Sydney, Australia, and lives in Bondi Beach. Anne has a Visual Arts degree from Sydney College of the Arts, with a major in Photography, and a diploma in Design from Sydney Institute of Design, with majors in Set and Costume Design. Anne’s work is influenced by Aboriginal and modern art, and she finds inspiration in the great outdoors, walking through national parks and being surrounded by nature. Anne would like to continue to make a living from designing and hopes to build a licensing portfolio; she has recently signed a licensing agreement with Keka Case in the USA to use her designs on a range of tech accessories. She would like to see her designs on wallpaper, fabrics, stationery and homewares, and dreams of designing for the rug market, combining ancient textile techniques with beautiful modern surface design.
Design Heroes: Julie Paterson, Jenny Kee, Emily Kame Kngwarreye
Geo Stripe Squares
Here, hand-sketched squares were scanned then digitally arranged into interesting patterns. Once Anne was happy with the position of the shapes, she rendered the work in colour, mixing solid stripes with delicate lacy lines.
Geo Cups Lime
Solid, organic half-lozenge shapes are overlaid with thinly drawn lines to give clarity and depth.
Neo Geo
For this design, created in Adobe Illustrator, Anne sketched pages of different geometric shapes – squares, triangles, semicircles and trapezoids – then filled each shape with lace-like patterns.